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Yap Giau Beng Terence v Public Prosecutor

[1998] 2 SLR(R) 855; [1998] 3 SLR 656
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtHigh Court of Singapore (Magistrate's Appeal)
Year1998
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

An appellate court should be slow to overturn a trial judge's findings of fact, particularly where they turn on the credibility and demeanour of witnesses, and will interfere only where the findings are plainly wrong or against the weight of the evidence.

Area of Law

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